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Airtel to bring 3G to India! |
whizkidd
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Does 3g need completely new infrastructure?
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govigov
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The airtel should in my opinion should look at connection plus handset on contract basis. They can certainly do that.
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shyam335
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On 2005-01-12 14:38:25, Debu wrote:
@shyam: i think 3g isn't exactly a risk, because, its got to come sooner or later, and if airtel is already preparing for it, it is probably foresight. It would mean that when it does finally roll out, they will have already an infrastructure ready for it.
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yea,its . i was wondering how much airtel will invest at first , and is airtel affording all the investments on 3g of their own , any ideas |
sonam
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Devesh, what i mean by risk is that airtel are putting their money too early, at a time when the market is unprepared for such an upgrade. What i mean is that people wont go in for it since the price would be too high. I dont doubt that such a move is inevitable. |
whizkidd
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But there's nothing wrong in being prepared. Is there? And airtel sure does know what they are doing.
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govigov
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Foresight is the most important thing when it comes to mobile phones.
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whizkidd
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How many of you guys would take 3g services? I have to say, i'm satisfied with my current plain ol gprs.
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shyam335
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I want 3g if its resonably charged,and occational video calls if possible  |
Debu
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I dont think that i would be taking 3G anytime in the near future. Even though it sounds extremely tempting i'm happy with my EDGE. If i'm having good egprs coveage, i can get upto DSL speeds, which i feel is good enough. Ideally one could get upto 384 kbps (stop dreaming!!)
but with mobile office and my 9500, i get round about 150-175 kbps, which is also quite impressive. In short 3g is out for me, atleast for about 1.5-2 years. |
plasmadog
Joined: May 06, 2004
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airtel are just giving some b***s*** excuse for their shitty gprs service.
@debu, man.. they've been saying this for ages.
the thing is they've outsourced all their network and call centre operations to other vendors. (Nokia and IBM respectively).. so they don't care about things like gprs since they're making all their money out of voice revenue. their data services don't make so much money, so they're cutting costs and providing really awful service.
that's the main reason i shifted out of airtel a few months ago. the thing is they're taking all gprs customers for a ride, about the stories of 3G and all... its just crap.
so next time.. don't be so nice to the nice lady!!!  |
arm9
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it'll be ages before any indian mobile network brings 3G. |
govigov
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Hutch might bring it sooner than you except it.
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k4m!k4ze
Joined: Oct 02, 2004
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i sure wish those b****ds would improve their existing networks first.
Frequent signal loss when talking, shitty gprs, you have to call the cc number 50 times before you finally get through and sometimes those idiots have no idea what ur talking about !  ! Their networks cant even handle loads at peak hours ! 
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence of your attempt !! |
arm9
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i've never trusted these people(network providers) but right now hutch does give the best gprs services in india.....yea i guess they'd be the first to bring it out.....luckily i'm on hutch. |
govigov
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Hutch has frequent call drops that i have heard of corporates shifting to airtel. Consider loosing some 200 postpaid connection at once. :-) And they charge exorbitant rates. :-(
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